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...their life. So the devil here is truly in the details. Who knew that Anne Sexton had several glasses of vodka and put on her mother's fur before gassing herself? Or that Abbie Hoffman was watching his favorite film, The Godfather, as he swallowed a fatal dose of whiskey and barbiturates? Or that when the police departed - and she was finally left alone with her dead husband's corpse - Courtney Love dipped her hands in Kurt Cobain's blood before eerily washing a piece of his blown-out skull...
...travels in tankers that can carry up to 4 million bbl. With daily world demand at about 85 million bbl., petroleum represents about a third of all international cargo. And even though the commodity is also measured in kiloliters (in Japan) and metric tons (in Russia), thanks to whiskey, the units are always converted to the 42-gal. barrel for trading and selling. (Watch the video "In Ecuador: Oil-Eating Mushrooms...
...historic shipwrecks that are now inhabited by a wide variety of marine life. Some wreck sites are shallow enough for snorkelers to view, including the Constellation, which sank in 1943 about eight miles off the coast of Bermuda en route to Venezuela with a hull full of medicines and whiskey. The ship, which now lies 30 feet underwater, was the inspiration for Peter Benchley's book The Deep and the subsequent film...
...Read a Q & A: Tennis great Rod Laver Read a Q & A: Whiskey, a Travelogue
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